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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION ATLANTA, GA- TUESDAY FEBRUARY 28 1886 Most perfect made Prepared by a physician with special regard to health. Ho Ammonia, Lima or Alum. Facsimile of Bottle K YSTON ? MALT | WHISKY I • ^ W T iS BEST TONIC! for OousamptfOE. v \Vt-.nig Oi scales a ad General r PFHFCTS DIGESTION! p'.'- ■ BK.VVSK OF IMITATIONS Ini* 'V,.;. , .Genuine hnsjthe sign*. Kr' ■ :V i; ~ !■>• ot EISNER & MENDEL- W’ J - ?ON on,the Label. w- ^.-v FOR BALK BY JDS. JACOBS, T- 1 . ■ Druggist, Atlanta, Ga. Men! Ion this paper.;noT 14-d gat wy AUCTION SALE! -70 Head Choice A, J, C C, JERSEY CATTLE, TJKDER TOE AUSPICES OF THE GEORGIA Jersey Breeders’ Association, at Atlanta, Ga., on Wednesday, 10th day March next. Drafts from the herds of Richard Veters, John L. Hopkins, J. B. Wiide and Woodward, McClellan Si Co., consisting of many valuable animals, strong In the blood of Cooma-ssie, Stoke Pogis, Signal Alpha, Mercury, St. Ilelier, Rex and Duke 76. Cattle eligible to the aj-sociation sales arc cither bom in this state or have been thoroughly acclimated. Catalogues will be ready for distribu tion about \20tli of February. Applications for Same must be addrc-^.-ed to GEO. M. HOPE, Secretary and Treasurer, Atlanta, Ga. Mention this paper. feb 9 wky It half the lat rinRorp, and costs l little more. , Tk/101DC por S^OTG»FA5E m ■ jnnbThe Clothes WARRANTED. As*«u w*u:-.i rirrjwhorr*. Empire W. Co., Anwar®, N. V | Mention this paper. feblG—vrkir.t ANTED—LADIES ORGENTLEMEN TO TAKE light, pleasant employment at theirown homes: Work h it bv mail. Distance noohjection. $2 to SO a day can be quietly made. No canvassing; nc Stamp for reply. Please address Globe Mfg. Co., Boston, Mass., box ftU4.mch g wky Q^ORT-HAND BY MAIL. Sib Iastrnc- i sent »>:. rem iC ass; nr;at IONwCimcinmjti. Qjuo. t returns. No purge, no salve, no k ; ;*oslUHcy. Bulfferer* will learn of a simple remedy Free, by j “* ’ “ ft rce:. N. V. DRUNK ENNESS or the Liquor Habit positively cured by administer ing Hr. liu inch' Golden Snecitic. It can be given in a cup of < oflec or tea without the knowledge of the person taking it; Is absolutely harmless, and will effect p. TKrrmajient and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinkerornnalcoholic wreck. It has been given in thousands of eases, and in every in&taucc a perfect cure has followed. It never fails. The qfrtnii once impregnated with the Specific, It becomes an impossibility for the liquor appetite to exist. For circulars and testimo nials address (iOLI)RN SFKCIFIC CO., oct20uk If 185 Kaee St., Cincinnati, Ohio. Mention tiic Constitution.feblC-wkyF>t '^STOPPED FREE M,trvelaux merest. l fnssno Parsons Hestorod E V:3 Hr.KLIIir.'S GREAT MnnvFRTO caer all r.KAin Iz Ntsn k Disui . >. Oufj sure • /•+ ’JVVr* • Atfrct^nt. fxt.. 'i'r/Jjr, etc. 1-ir.UH if ’ -I as dit yt*! .\* Fits after HdSswhcn . •itdres* of »irlph!i.Fa ta® wias. JVJSH r A&£ OF MUTATING FIUILDS. tti-ii ion this papei nula-.y wedirJEun wJcy S EN!) i C®£! eu. Ag*DtJ well I Ifcidion this paper. of. Moo.1 V■* Vent li:ustr«.uxt %. New DetaMu. *L.l Umotle . Fr»r.XOOUY,nu<4iMMtt;,U. febO—-wif cow WEAICggH suffering from the rort, 4*tlj doeny. loot' valnebi* nr«atiee(f«a1ftii> t, froe of THE LAST DAYS OF THE EXPIRING SOUTHERN CON FEDERACY. Tho Sudden Departure of air. Davis from Richmond —Hie Letters to His Wife Reproduced — The Negotiation* of Sherman and Johnston to Adopt a Peace Armistice. A VALUABLE POSSESSION FOR EVERY MAN engaged in business is one of The Constitu tion's Ironclad note hooks. Tho notes waive all fcomcMcad rights and exemptions and the garnish ment of wages. We send a book of 100 notes upon receipt of CO cents, or f»0 notes for 35 cents. Address The Cornliiution. d&w Iff Mention this paper. I* MtTftlMB*. The following con Code rate papers captured at the close of the war have just been made pnbHc: MR. JHgySESON DAVIS—TWO PRIVATE LET TERS OF THE DEEPEST PUHLIC INTEREST. Danviixt, Vn., 5 April, ’G-j.-My Dear Wife; I have In rain nought to get Into communication with General Lee, and have postponed writing in the hope tlmt 1 would soon be aide to speak to vou with fume confident c of the future. On last Sunday l was called out of church to receive a telegram, announcing that General Lee could not hold his position longer than till night and warning me that we must leave Richmond, as the aiuiy would commence retiring that evening. 1 made no necessary arrangements at my office, mid went to our house to have the proper dispositions made there. Nothing had been done after you left and but little could ho dons in the few hours which remained before the train v. as to leave. I packed the bust aud gave it to Jno. Davis, who offered to take it & put it where it should never be found by a Yankee. I also gave him charge of H «? painting of the heroes of the val ley. Doth were removed after dark. Tne furniture of the house was left, and very little of the things I directed to be put up bedding and groceries were saved. Mrs. Oinelia behaved just as you described her, but seemed anxious to servo, and promised to take care of Everything, which may mean some things. The Auction car returned account of sales 23,100 dollars—Goals not dispose of the carriages—Mr. Graut was afraid to take the carriage to Uis house, Ac., Ac. I sent It to the depot to be put on a flat at the moment of starting it was said they could not lake it in that train, but would bring it on the next one—-It hf.s not been heard from since. I sent a menage lo Mr. Grant that f had neglected toreturn the cow and wished him to send for her immedi- atlelv— Called off on horseback to the depot. I left the sc fronts to go down with the boxes and they left Tippy—Watson came willingly. Spencer came against my will, Robert, Alf, Y.1I.& Ives got drunk. David Bradford went back from the Depot to bring out the spoons auu forks which l was toldliod been left—and to come out with General Breckinridge, fciiicc then I have not heard from cither of them. I had short notice, was interrupted so often, and so little aided that the results are very unsatisfiic- tory- 1 he people here have been very kind, and the Mayor & Council have offered assistance in the matter of quarters, and have very handsomely de clared tlicir nnaboted confidence—I do not wish to leave Vo., but cannot decide on my movements until those of the army are better developed—I hope you are comfortable and trust soon to hear from you— Kiss my dear children—I weary of this sad re cital, and have nothing pleasant to tell. May God have yon in nis holy keeping is the fer vent prayer of your ever afleetionate , Ilrsh.vND. J. D. Howell Is here, though I have not seen him; he A Joe Nick came together as n guard to Treas’y specie- Charlotte, N. C . April 23,1865—My Dear Win nie : I have been detained here longer than was expected when the last telegram was sent to you. 1 inn uncertain where yon are. and deeply' teef the ncccfsity of being with you, if even fora brief time, tinder our altered c ircumstances. Governor Vance and General Hampton propose to meet me here, and General Johnston sent me a request to remain at feme point where he could readily communicate with me. Under these circumstances I have aiftir fall particuHr-t for h«m<> cure, froe of : AadrasaProM'- <>■ I'OVv LEjA,Moodua, Conn. Cored without the knife or loss of blood. Vastly anperior to all other methods. Hundreds of cases :uied. Descriptive pamphlet sent free. Address >i. E. If. Green, 713a Peachtree street, Atlanta, Ga. WORK PLAID SHAWL GIVEN AWAYJ, Thrmijrh tire- f.iilnrs#f ft Drjr* n— ufartiin-T cl Htaivwt*« there ha* coro« Into our hand* a larrr consignment of t’lald Shawls, |*rfr«-t c<x*d.«, which wjprntKw to j-resmt to xbe ladle* In tho Miowlog manner: Send a* 25 rents foe ft *■•*. mbw-rip- t:-n to Fans *»d IImmImM, ft Jar if* 82 page illustrated paper, d<*. Tut.d to Farm and 1 lomu-hold toplor, StoHeaand general miscellany, and we Trill send von one of three Ik-Bui lf«l •hawla'I'REE l»y mail pctpald, For we will send 6 shawls and 5 srat- •criptlens to ono address for $1.00 Batiafftctlon guaranteed ' . or money refunded. Addre*a A j FARM AND HOt HEIIOLD, Hartford, Com. ..4 the menus of arming t irWUnr narertu:-. all jrret'.'; -*■ nwItoMMtaAtll..U?u ..JIuuocca .of r>^So,o, T.,«;]r M.-.odlir,, Boon.. Raster, BtodT, r.-tfFfe-iS! nourton. Cu.ur.WiU t:U, MaS U,Orn.Crook Mdojhi:. niu.irrtrtwith 175*i,..r.T... -tlWlWWITlI*, l.w pnMd .4 ba*. .11 to a.11 hoh*to™hit o.ul.rt.ilfcl.ljiiiwaLaiti. -wkjtit no FOR ALL. *80 n week and expenses paid. Ontflt worth Ja and particulars free. 1*. O. VIGKKKY, Augusta, Maine. ::2 wkj -13t. I Mention this paper. 231c':—tvkp-t e o w v. ••........ .. in reply lo my inquiry tl:at you were n: Abbeville, and tlmt lie would gt to eceyon. My last di-patch w as sent to that place, and to the care cf Mr. Burt. Your own feelings will convey to you an Idea of my solicitude for you- and your family .and I Bill not distress by describ ing it. The dispersion of Lee's army and the surrender of the remnant v. Inch remained with hint deslroved the hopes I'entertalaed when we parted. Had that army held together, 1 am now confident we contd have succes dully executed the plan which I sketched to ycu, and vtonld have been todav on the high road to independence. Even after that disaster, if the n' ■- v. ) -straggled,” say thirty or foiiy thousand in mmi’ t-r, ltad come back with their anas and with a disposition to tight,we might have repaired the damage; but all was sadly the reverse of that. They threw away theirs andwrerenn- contnlably resolved to go home. The small guards along the road have sometimes been unable to pre- v<r:t ilie pillage of ttalns and depots. J’aalc has seirtd the cent:try. J. E. John.don ami Beauregard w-ere boneless as to rveinlting their forces from the dispersed rneti of Lee’s army, and equally so as to tilth abilitv to slrcck Sherman with the forces they had. Their early idea was to retreat, of the power to do so they Were doubtful,ar.d sybseqnoi lde-e;(ous from their troops have materially diminished their Strength, and 1 leant, still more weakened their confidence. The loss of arm-has been so great that should the spirit of the peple rise lo the oeeasion it would not l c at this time possible adequately to supply tl t m with weapons of war. General Johnston bad several interviews with She: man, aud agreed on a suspension of hostilities and the reference of terms or pacification. They are secret, mid may be rejected by the yaukee gov ernment. Ton-they are harel enough, though freed from wsnton humiliation and expressly recognizing the state governments and the rights of person aud i toj city as secured by the constitutions of the I’niied States ami the several states. General Breckinridge was a party lo the last con- • nltothm and to the agreement. Judge llengau went With him and approved the agreement, though not present at the I cmference. Each member of the cabinet i- (ogive Ills opinion in « riling today : first, ni«n the acceptance uf tin- terms; second, upon the mode of proceeding If am j.ted. The issue is one which it is very painful for le.c lo meet. On one hand is the long night of < (question which will follow tho return of our iconic to the “unionon the other the sutiering of thewomen and children aud cnruagcaiiroug the few 1 ravo patriots w ho would still oppose the in vader, and who, unless the people would rise eu Id struggle but to die of t pinion or of place. I have prayed to our i lily Father to give me wisdom and fortitude equal to the demands of the position in which Providence hr.- placed me. 1 nave sacrificed so much for the cause of the confederacy that I can measure my ability to make any future sacrifice required, and am assured there is but one to which I am not equal, my wife and my children. How are they to be saved from legradatiou or want is now my care. During the •uspenaiou orho-ti itleayou may liavc the best op- toirunity logo to Mississippi, and tlicucc cither to -ail from Mobile fora foreign port, or to cross the river and proceed to Texas, as the one or the other may he more practicable. The Uttle sterling you have will be a very scanty store, and under other circumstances w ould not no counted,but If onrland can be sold that will secure you from absolute waul. 1 or iny-elf It may be that our enemy will prefer to t nnish me; it may be that a devoted band of caval ry will cling lo me. and that I r an force my way aero* the Mississippi, and if nothing rail be done there which it wtU be proper to do. then I can go to Mexico aud have the world from which to choose a location. IKar wife, this is not the fate to which I invited when the future Was rose colored to ua both, bat l know you will bear it even better than myself, and ■ that of us two I alone will overlook back reprouch- tully on my past career. 1 have thus entered on the emotions involved ill the future to guard against contingencies. My stay will not be pro longed a day be)— ' ”—“ ' here, and there 1 will be with vou rives. Mis. Omelia behaved very strangely about put ting the things you directed, ltohert says she would not permit to pack, that she even took groceries out of the mess chest when lie had put a -mall quantity there. Little Maggie’s saddle wa- concealed, and I learned after we left Richmond was not with the saddles and bridles which 1 directed to lie all put together. At the same time I was informed that your saddle liad been sent to the saddler's aud left there. Everybody seemed afraid or connection with our property, and your carriage was sent to the depit to lie brought with me: a plea was made that It mild rot goon the cars of that train, but slionld follow in the next: specific charge and promise was given, but the carriage was left. The notice to leave was given on Sunday: liut few limns were allowed, and my public duties- im- . clltd to rely on others; -011111 on nothing as saved which you valued except the bus'., aud that had to be left behind. Mrs. Omelia said sli2 was eltarg-d, i the event -of onr having lo leave, to place the valnaol -s with tlie Sisters, and that she would distribute every thing. I told her to sell what she could, and, after feeling distrust, asked Mrs. (trout to obsrevc her. and after Hint peeanie convinced that she, ton, probably under the ipltucpoo of tier im-band, vn afraid to be known as having close relations with us. Ktsi Maggie and Hie children many times for me. The only yearning heart in the final hour was 1 eor old Kara wishing for “pic cake;” and thus I left our late home. No had preparation for a rearch for another. Dear children, I can say noth ing to them, Lnt for you and them my heart is lull, ir.y prayers constant, and my hopes are the trust 1 feel in the mercy of God. Farewell, my dear; there may he hotter things in store for 11s Ilian are now in view, lint my lore h- all 1 have to offer, end that has the value of a thing long passe®-cd, nml sure not to lie lost. Oueo more, mid, with God’s favor, for n short limp only, farewell. YOVB IICHUim. YTFAVH OF TITE lONFEDI’.P.ATF, CABINET. When Mr. Davis aud Iris cabinet readied Charlotte, N. C„ the president requested each official to submit bis views in writing concern ing tho military convention botweou General given to the southern euiex on their submission to the authority oftho United States. General Sher- man seemed to regard the resolutions of congress and tho declaration- of the president of tlie United States ai conclusive that the restoration or the Inlon was the object of the war, and to believe that the soldiers of the United States had been fighting for that object. A long official conversa tion with Mr. Lincoln on southern afflolrs a very short tune before hail convinced him that the president then adhered to that view.” WHAT TO DO WITH THE I-JtE3IDENT. Tlie most troublesome question, according to uoncral Johnston, was what should he done about Mr. Davis aud tho cabinet. Tho con clusion of tho council General Johnston sum med up in this way; “In the conrse of the afternoon we agreed upon the terms expressed in tho memorandum drawn up on the 18th. except that Generalh-herman did not consent to include Mr. Davis and the oilierrs of hfs cobiuel in an otlierwi-e general amnesty. This con- sjoeratlon was miue.’ofcourse. General Sherman did not desire the arrest of these gentlemen. lie was too acute not to foresee the embarrassment (heir capture would 'cause, therefore he wished them to escape. Much of the afternoon was consumed in endeavors to dispose of this part of tlie question in a mmmerthat would be satisfuctorv bpth to the government of the United States nml tlie southern people, as well as to the confederate president: but at sunset no conclusion had been reached, and the conference was suspended, to be resumed at « o’clock next morning. Thinking it probable that the confidential relations of the sec retary of war with Mr. Davis rn'glit enable him to remove the only obstacle loan adjustment, I rc- Sblct llm lji t'-'h'Srapli to join me as soon as pos- THE AGREEMENT SIGNED, j On tho following day the agreement was signed, and the circumstances, General Jo'ju- ston says, were these: “General Breckinridge and Mr. Reagan came to General Hampton’s quarters together, an hour or tv.o before daybreak. After they had received rrom me as full an account oftho dlscusaaltm of the day beforeas my memory enabled meto give, and had learned the terms agreed upon and the diffi culty In the way of lull agreement, Mr. Reagan proposed to reduce them to writing, to t facilitate J. E. Johnston aud General Sherman. The members of the cabinet responded, and on ono point they wero all agreed, viz: that it was uselots to prolong the struggle, and that it was advisable to accept the host tcrm3 that could bo secured from the victor. Mr. Benjamin wrote: In arccentconferencewiththc cabinet at Greens- loiro, Generals Johnston and Beauregard expressed the unqualified opinion that it was not in their power to resin Sherman's advance, and that as fast as tlicir army retreated the soldiors of the several states in the line of retreat would abandon tlie army and go home. We also henr on nil sides, and from eiti7ens well acquainted with public opinion, tlmt the state of North Carolina wilt not consent to continue the struggle after our armies shall have withdrawn further south, and this withdrawal is Inevitable if hostilities are rc* timed. This action of North Carolina would render It impossible for Virginia to maintain tier position in the confederacy, even If her people were uuaai- inan- iu their desire to .continue tlie contest.^ ^ The confederacy is. in a word, unable to continue the war by armies in the tield, and the struggle ean 110 longer be maintained in any other manner than by a guerrilla or partisan warfare. Kuril a war fine is not, in my opinion, desirable, nor doe- it premise anv useful result. It would entail far more at;tiering on our own people than it would cause damage to tlie enemy, and the people have been such heavy sufferers by the calamities cf the war for the last four years that it is at least questionable whether they would be willing lo en gage in such a contest, unless forced to endure its horrorsin j-refercncc to di-honor and degradation. Mr. Brcckenridgo took a similar view aud said- I do not thsnk it would he possible to assemble, equip and maintain an army of UO.OOJ at any point cast of the Mis-i-sippi river. The contest, if continued after this paper is rejected, will be likely to lose entirely the dignity or regular warfare. Many of the states will make such terms as they may; in others sepa rate and iuetlbctivc hostilities may be prosecuted, while the war. when rewaged, will probably de generate into thr.tirrcgnlar and secondary stage out of wliiclrgrcatcr evils will ilowio tlie south than to (he enemy. For these, and for other reasons which need not now be stated, I think we can no longer contend with reasonable hope of success. Mr. Mallory, in the course of liis elaborate ly written opinion, made tho following points: A guerrilla warfare might be carried on in cer tain portions of our country for n time, perhaps for years, lrnt while such n Warfare would lie more dis astrous to our own people than it could possibly ho to the enemy, it would exercise little or no influ ence upon his military operations or upon litsjhold upon the country. Conducted upon our own soil our own people would chiefly feel its evils, and would a flora it neither count jimncc nor support. Guerrilla warfare never has been and never ean be enrried on bv and between peoples of a common origin, language and institutions. * a * * c * * You cannot undcrtlie constitution dissolve the confederacy and remit the states composing it tho government of the United States. But the confed eracy is conquered. Itsdaysnre numbered. Vir ginia is lost to it, mid North Carolina must soon follow, and state nftcr state.nnder the hostile tread of the enemy, must re-enter the old union. Tire attorney general, Mr. George Davis, .summed up tho situation as follows: Persevering efforts for many months past have failed to overcome the obstacles to tlie removal of troops from the west lo the east of the Mississippi. We ean therefore look for no accession of. strength from that quarter. If a returning sense of duty and patriotism should bring back tlie stragglers and deserters in sufficient era-to form a respectable army, we have not ig them. Our supply of arms is or man - ■L, L ■ blockade of our ports prevents their introduction from abroad, ex cept in small quantities and at remote points. 1 n view of these facts our two generals highest in command In the field have expressed in decided trims onr inability loi —” ’ Observation has sat; Virginia and North Carolina arc finally lost to our cause. The people of the latter arc utterly weary of the war, broken and despairing in spirit, and eager to accept terms far less liberal than the con vention proposes. In tlie absence of it general arrangement they will certainly make terms lor themselves. Abandoned by our armies, the people of Virginia will follow their example, ami > Will be impossi ble to arrest the process of disintegration thus be gun. This melancholy array of tacts leaves ooen but one conclusion. 1 am unhesitatingly of tlie opin ion that the convent ion ought to lie ratified. • Mr. Reagan agreed with iris colleagues and gave this advise: As you have no power lo change the government ofthe country or to transfer the allegiance ofq-'y' people, I would advise that you submit to i M, Jones,.or Florida, is paying court, in the daughter ii-eciftl states, through their governors-, the qVr- ot Frniieis Palms, tlie C'riesus of Michigan.* Mhe-w: tion as towheiher they will. In theexcrcueofthe'-r -• ■ •’ ■ reconsideration. In doing so, he Included the arti cle for amnesty without expressions, ilie only one not fully agreed to, this paper .being unfinished when General Lrcckeuridgc and myself set out to the place of meeting, was to be sent to me there. W hen wo met I proposed to General Sherman that General Breekenridgo should lie admitted to our discussion, as his 1 crsomil relations with the president of the confederacy might enable him to remove tho ob stacle to agreement that ivc had encountered the day before. He assented and that gentleman joined ns. We liad conversed on the subject discussed Bic day before perhaps a half hour when tlie mem orandum written by General Reagan was brought. I read this paper to General Sherman as a basis of peace, pointing out to him that it contained nothing which he had not already adopted but tliclangiingc that included the presi dent and cabinet In tlie terms of amnesty. After listening to General Breckenrldge, who addressed him for six or eight minutes In advocacy of these conditions of peace, General Sherman wrote very rapidly the memorandum with the paper present ed by me before him. He wrote so rapidly that I thought at the time he mnsthavecomo to the place A ‘ -xccptious. in being prepared to agree to amnesty with no exceptions, his paper was different from mine ouly ’ ’ ’ - Hiller. ” PERSONS AND THINGS. Cray Lock mountain, which is :t,."SOO foot above the level of tho sea, is the highest point in tlie state of Massachusetts. February III Governor St. Johu opens tho prohibition campaign in New Hampshire by a speech at Manchester. About sixty patents arc issued every year to women iaventom. Last year the total number of patents issued was 22,000. Is Siam the eats have their tails hanged. In this country the aim is to Dang their heads, but the bootjack sometimes flics wide of the mark. Sam Jones soys “from a governor down to a dog pcltcr he would not vote for a man that touched, tasted or handled whisky tosave his life. John O’Brien, “tho man without legs,” and Mbs Esther Bullock, a dwarf, were married at Co hoes, N. Y., Friday. The combined height of the couple is scarcely seven feet. I)r. Peter Bursett, who died penniless in New York ciiy Thursday, was married three times, and each wife brought him a fortune of between £100,000 and 8-109,600. Miss Cumut Palms, to whom Senator igofo _ cootcft by the confederate government they would have no alternative but to accept tlie terms [ir e pond or an unequal and hopeless war, and that It would l<e needle s for them to go through tho forms and incur the trouble and expense of assembling a convention for the purpose. To such an objection, if urged, it may he answer ed that we entered into the contest to maintain and vindicate the doctrine of state rtglitsand state lovere-ignty and the right of self-government nml that we can only lie faithful to the const itution of tlie United states and true to the principles in in-j jort of which we have expended so much Woo l and treasure, by the employment ofthe same agen cies toreturn into tlieold Union whleh weemployed in rcpnralhig from it amlin forming onr present government, and that if this should be an umvcl- eome and enforced action by tlie state it would not be mere so on the part of the states than on the part ofthe president, if he were to-undertake to execute the whole agreement, and while they would have authority lor acting lie would have none, .'i-.-''.'.-' AM INTERVIEW WITH MR. REAGAN. In a recent talk Mr. Keagan said: ‘1 do not know whether anything was said at the meeting where the terms were agreed to about slavery specifically. It was my purpose in framing tlie article to preserve the autonomy of tho states, the tights or property and persons under iho con stitution amllaws ot tlie United States and states. My idea was to preserve the institution of slavery, as far as it could be preserved under the constitu tion. We certainly understood the terms in that way.” GENERAL JOE JOHNSTON’S RECOLLECTIONS. General Joo Johnston was seen it; regard to tlie same matter. In iristalk with the reporter he tells of the Information respecting his forces, vvhien lie laid before Mr. Davis and his cabi net. He says: I represented f would be the greatest of human crimes for us to at tempt 10 continue the war, fur having neither money nor credit, nor arms but those I11 the hands of cur soldiers, nor ammunition but that in the cartridge-boxes, nor shops for repairing anus or fixing ammunition, the effect of our keeping the field would be not to harm the enemy, but to com plete the devastation of our country aud the ruin of its people, t! therefore urged that the presiden t ■tumid exercise at mice Hie only function of g»v- onimcnl still lu his possession, anil open negotia tions for per.ee. General Johuston says t hat the president w-w finally pc’'traded to write to General Shermuu proposing a suspension of hostilities. DAVIS' LETTER. The. ictlcr was iu those words: The results ofthe recent campaign In Virginia 1-ave changed the relative military condition of Hie belligerents. I am, therefore, induced to ad dress you in lids form the inquiry, whether in or der io stop further effusion of blood aud devasta- tion ol property, you arc willing to make a tempo rary suspension of active operations, and to com municate to Lieutenant-General Grant, commaud- tnglbc armies of tho United States, the request that he will take like action iu regard to other armies. The object being to permit the civil an- •- - :dfu thoritics to enter into the needful arrangements to terminate the existing war. A meeting between the generals was brought about. General Johnston's account or how they argued the situation, and how an under standing was fiually reached, is as follows: NOT RECOGNIZED DV THE UNITED STATES. When General Sherman understood, what seemed to have escaped him in reading my letter, that my object was to make snch an armistice os would give opportunity for negotiations between the civil authorities of the two countries, he said such negotiations were impossible, because the government of the United Ktatesdld not aeknowl- • go the existence of a southern confederacy, l,or. ronseqnendy, its civil authorities as and Therefore, ire could not receive for raiismissioii any proposition addressed to -• government of the United States by those oh ..ling to bo the civil authorities^ of a southern ei. federacy: He added, in a manner tliatcarricd conviction of sincerity, expressions of a wish to di vert from the south such devastation as tlie con- tim.ancc ofthe war would make Inevitable, an,Ins n means or accomplishing the object, so far as the armies were concerned, he offered me snch terms as those given to General Lee. I replied that our relative positions were too different from those of the armies In Virginia to justify such a capitula tion, but suggested tlmt wo do more than ho pro posed; that instead of a partial suspension of hos tilities we might, as oilier generals had done, aiiongc the terms of a permanent peace, ami among other precedents reminded him of tlie preliminaries ot Loc-ben and thedermsi which Napoleon, then victorious, proposed nego tiations to Ilie Archduke Charles, and the senti ment he expressed that tlie civic crown earned by preserving the life of one citizen confers truer giorvtlian tin- highest achievement merely mili tary. General Sherman replied with heightened color that lie appreciated such a sentiment, and tlmt to put an cud to further devastation and bloodshed, aud restore the union, and with it tlie pncperily oi the country, were to him objects of ambition. We then entered Into a discussion of the terms that ought to he ARP AT WORK. ENGINEERING ONE END < CROSS.-CUT SAW. Exercise ns a Cure for Rheumatism—The Sagacity of the Farm Mule—How Boys Wore Boiixl to Work in the Olden Time—The Difference Between Country GHrls City Bellos. Over one thousand persons, animals and birds, including horses, elephants, camels, kanga roos and ostriches, appear nightly in the'.elaborate rantomime of “Aladdin and the Forty Thieves” at Sanger’* amphitheater in London. “Aunt” Sally Homan-Webb-Smith-Cur- lis-Grey, the relict of five husbands, died at Sag Ilaibor, L. I., recently. By her will she left her projicrty (SlO.OOOi to tlie son of her second Uasband whom she said she had overworked and ill-treated when a boy. Dr. Kneeland, in a lecture at Boston tho othernight, gave the latest prices for wives among tlie Knnthnl people. If the woman is young and pretty, the husband must pay to her relatives from #* lo Ifi. Divorced women are quoted at about 51.W, and widows at seventy-five centscaeli. Congressman Robertson, of Kentucky is, the oddest member about his food, He is extrav agantly fond of onions. Usually ho orders a large dish of these vegetables cut raw and eats them all \\ Itli wonderful relish. No matter how crowded tlie house restaurant Is Robertson always has an entire table to himself. As a rule, England’s war veterans reach a greater age than our own. Hancock died at fiJ, Grant at K! and McClellan at GO. Lord Ktradbroke, who served under Wellington in Spain 1810, died recently at tlie ageof 92, and the, lie himself lived beyond fourscore years, Henry Ward Beecher told a reporter the other day: “I don’t think there lias been such a president as Mr. Cleveland since Mr. Lincoln was in office, lie is an honest, sincere, straightforward officer, in whom the country has confidence, and tlie business men breath a sigh or relief when they think tlmt ho is the chief executi ve,” “S. L. G.” writes from Saco, Me., to the Advertiser: It may help to an accurate idea of the weight of ice which gathered upon trees du ring theirecont visitation, to state that on Friday, Jauuary 29th, a nearly upright sprout of about oue sixth of an ineli iiidiametor.upou tieing weigh ed with its evenly distributed coatage.wasfouud to be thirty-six, or more exactly thirty-six and three fourths, times heavier Ilian after the ice liad melt ed off The next day the weight of a small pen dunt forked twig, upon which in addition to a coating similar to that first mentioned, there had formed Icicles of various lengths, was found to be oue hundred mid forty-three times greater than tlmt of the tiare twig. The weight used being of ' tceiraal system, the calculation of 1-t; rctiy simple, liability to error im iiumura. eland is one of tho most the metric K'!™; * UKSID lie- ...tho . oilier i i saw in tlie presence of ladies, dlt d upon him with a lady friend tn:r vi; !• • tlally on business and partially to he Facial .. i t a tlie president received us he was very grai i ill and composed, but the moment he discovered that we intended to delay and talk, O hut how i;c blushed! and how confused he became I was sorry for him and wo soon got away.” A very handsome widow, vivacious and young, from one of tho best southern families, spoke the above recently to tho (Washington correspondent ofthe Indianapolis Journal. “At first the president didn't ask us to sit down," continued the lad; “and we began to get red behind the cars: but I nally he recovered, and he was as courteous as a Frenchman. Any one could have seen, though, that the president was all the time wishing wo would leave. He doesn’t rseoiu . to know what to say lo tlie ladies. 0, but what a lover he would maker “It is hot generally known,” says the St. James Gazette, “tlmt the famous cream colored horses which draw her majesty's state carriage, as they have drawn the carriage of licr before licr for tlie last century and a the brecii for a very long period lias been at Herrenbansen, a country residence tying a couple of miles outside the Hanoverian capital. There thirty or these fine animals, kept by the Prussia: government on behalf of theexileddukcofCnm- bcilaud out ofthe revenues of bis confiscated es tates. Tlie breed has so long been earetotty kept pure that it is rare (so say tlie attendcntsl for any thing but a cream-colored fool to lie produced. In Hanover, on state occasions, the king's carriage was accustomed to be drawn by tho creams, white the queen sat behind a team of bays. If thcaecount of tlie stable autboritie* may be believed, t he foot men who walk at the head of each animal arc not merely ornamental. Except on state occasions these horses never leave tlie stable: aud they are kept In sueli gross condition that they need to he watched, lest they should suddenly give way to a desire for instant repose, and thereby disturb tlie lIhIdIu T»mr»rot;® #if fhr» (IllW'n'S WlrtCPl’." stalely progress of the queen’s cortege A Profitable Investment, Can lie made in a postal card if it is used to send your address to_ Itallotc & Co., Portland, Maine, who can furnish you work that you can do and live at homo. Few thcr j are tvhu can not earn over $ii per day and gome have made over $r>0. Capital not required; you aro started free. Either sex; all ages. All particular^ free. Copyright 18S5, all rights reserved. I’vo been doing nothing so long that I'm not much account. I tried pulling ono end of cross-mt saw today, aud it made me blow like a porpoise. I had to get a substitute, aud then I tried my favorite amusement of chop ping with an ax, aud I conldent hold out long at that. I took a walk over the farm, aud when I got back I tumbled down on the bed to rest, and Mrs, Arp asked me if I was sick. But am going to keep it up until I get ray wind hack. Exercise is tho best medicine in the world aud tho cheapest. My fatlior said it was the best remedy for rheumatism he over tried. When tho pains struck him bad he would get up and take a tramp over the farm, aud would go in a walk ora fox trot, according to suft'er- ing. Walking is very good for genteel exer cise, but it takes a variety of work to bringall the muscles - into play and make tho whalo body strong. Tho cross cut aud tho ax are very good. Shoving a jack plane is first rate but if a man wants to get tired all over let hint dig post holes for half a day. Colie says that he druthcr dig the holcs.thau set the posts. Coha used to say postesscs, but tho children laughed at him and ho dropped off a syllable. Soma folks like one kind of work and some another. The Irish seem to love a spade or a pick bet ter than any other tool. Tho uegro loves to plow and split rails. He Is perfectly happy when following a mule on a hot summer day, and happier still when tho horn blows for din ner and ho can rido home sideways. The mule is happy too, anil answers the horn with a cheerful hray. It is astonishing itow much sense an old farm mule has got. X knew one that when it was most dinner time kept ono ear hack towards the house when he was plow ing the other way and kcptlioth forward when ho was coming back. Ono day I blowcd tho horn about eleven o’clock to sac wlmt Beck would do. She was at tho end of tho row, and it took tho darkey ten minutes to 'make her turn round and go to flowing again. But it is fun to see tho dar- cics when a summer rain comes up. They will plow on until tho shower comes and theu mount and lope Home and get wet all over, and by that time the rain is over and they have to go back again. Tho darkey takes more care of his head than his feet. He don't want his head to get wet or cold. Ho sleeps with Ills head to the fircand covers it up good and lets his feet stick out any way. lie will warm his bands before he will his toes. There is one thing that a darkey can do lictter than a white man. He can beat us making fires on a cold, wintry morning. Sometimes when tho wood was wet and tho kindling poor I liavo worked over a fire a good while and almost despaired of making it bnrn, hut a darkey never fails. The fire seems to recognize him aud I have thought that maybe it drew sonto colored caloric from his carcass. Work is more a habit than anything else. If a hoy is trained to work he does not dislike it when he is a -nan. I know this both from ex perience and observation. My good father made me work and I am thankful for it. I never saw the day since I became a man that I had net rather work than to study or go vis iting or sit round and do nothing. Before going to school and after it was out I had to chop the wood aud feed the stock and make tho fi res, and hoo in tho garden or weed onions, and run errands and do a little of everything, and it was good fur me. I walked two miles to school, aud had a good time going and coming, and at noon wo played town ball, aud Saturday evenings we wo’.A P Jring or picked chinkapins or topped trees for chest nuts or gathered walnuts or went to mill aud liad frolic enough to keep us happy. I see boys about town nowadays who never strike a lick that helps the family. They go to school and then to college and then to the — well, I won’t say. Some of them do learn liow to play base bail and go front city to city on a tare, aud that about finishes tip their education aud prepares them for the battle of life. The next thing is to skylark around for a wife with plenty of money, and if lie succeeds they live happy for a mouth or so and then worry along. I saw a nice young married lady yesterday—a farmer’s wife—and her husband was plowing in the field, and she said slio didn’t play on the piano now as much as the cooking stove, and it was her chief joy to have a clean room aud a warm tiro and a good supper for him when became home tired aud hungry. Tho lint housekeeping of a country couple, who have to work for a living is just splendid. It beat* going to Niagara or Saratoga. One is all fact and tho other all fancy. I wouldn’t givo two dollars and a half for t o-iy girl who read novels till midnight and sleep until nine o’clock next moriuug, cat breakfast iu a wrapper and theu took an hour to dress, and then spent the rest of tho day in making calls qr receiving them, or in tho milliners’ rooms or tho fashionable stores. A young man who is hunting a wife as a helpmate had just as well marry one of these fine dressed figure frames we see in tho stores. Bcttflr I reckon, for they would do hint no harm if they did no good. They wouldn’t pout nor have hysterics nor run away with another feller; The best tiring fur young people is to realize early that work is a bless ing and not a curse. I mean useful work— something that brings good results. Uuntin„ and fishing and baseball are very good, recrea tions, and so is a crazy-quilt and music, but such things aro for tiio odd hours ouly. A young man uecd not ho dependent on his em ployer longer than about two years. By that time he can make himself so useful that his employer will want him as bad as he wants his employer. I know young men who have worked up to a six thousand dollar salary. Their employers know that when they quit and go away a large trade goes with them. I saw a young Roman tire other day w ho worked for sovouty-fivedollars a mouth year before last, and at the end of the year he modestly asked for a hundred and they gave it to him, not willingly but grudgingly, for capital is mean and stingy, aud so tho first of last mouth ho suggested that he thought he should have one hundred and twenty-five, and it took them threo days to digest it, but they agreed to it, for that young man lias nrado more friends than they have aud could set up for himself and take his friends with him. After awhile ho will get rich and then maybe he will get mean too—I don't know—I hope not. It is a pitiful spectacle to see a young man writing all over tho country for a situation. It is almost as had as begging. There are fifty applicants for every place that is open aud the l'oity-uiuc remain idle. But thcro is one (dace that is always open, and that is on the farm. A young man who will work diligently on a farm for two years will mako more at ten dollars a month than lie will at forty in a public oilifco in a town or a city, for he will make char actcr and good health, and get experience and acquire a habit of work and ho will keep out of temptation. Tho forty dollars in town all goes for shows and frolics and etcotoras and at the end of the year he has not saved a cent. I never saw a boy work two years on a farm but could get something olso to do if he wanted it. Business men will take them every timo in preference to tho soft handed, kid gloved college boy—now- and then tlie college boy makes Iris mark iu tho world and rises to tho top of some profession, but it is only one in a hundred and that ono woatf huvo made his mark anyhow, colie_ or no college. Governor .Smith and Professor White delivered themselves at tho agricultur al convention and said tho darkey would not work aud was getting more trifling every year. Weil I don’t see much difference. There are about as many whjtc folks doing no good as there are darkeys. In fact, I am afraid there aro more. * Bin. Anr FITS: Aj\ fits stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great lAervc restorer. No Fits after lir.-t day’s BSc. Marvelous cures. Trestisoand $1 trial bottle free to Fit cases, Send to Dr. Kline, 031 Arch St,, Philadelphia, Pa, SCIENTIFIC TRUTH! EEGARDING THE FUNCTIONS O? ay IMPORTANT ORGAN, Of JHil'li the Public Knows Bit Little, ■Worthy of Careful Consideration. To the Editor cf the Scientific American” Will you permit us to make known to the public the facts we have learned daring the past eight years, concerning disorders cf (he human kidneys and the organs which diseased kidneys so easily break down? You arc conducting a sc ientifli-paper, and are un prejudiced except in favor of truth. It is need- ess to say, no medical journal of “code” stand ing would admit these facts, for very obvious reasons. H. H. Warner & Co., Proprietors of “Warner’s Safe Cure.” That we may emphasize and clearly explain the relation the kidneys sustain to the general health, and how nine h is dependent upon them, wepropoe. metaphorically speaking, to take one from the human hpdy, place it in the wash howl before ns, aud examine it for thodiuhlic benefit. You will imagine that wo have before ns a body shaped like a bean, smooth and glisten ing, about four inches in length, two in width, undone in thickness. It ordinarily weighs iu the adult male, about live ounces, lmt is some what lighter in the female. A small organ? you ray. But understand, the body of the ave rage size man contains about ten quarts of blood, of which every drop passes through there filters or sewers, as they may be called, many limes a day as often as through the heart, making^a complete revolution in three min utes. From tlie blood they separate the waste material, working away steadily, night and day, sleeping or waking, tireless as the heart itself, and fully of as much vital importance; removing impurities from (it gallons of Mood each hour, or about lit barrels each day. or !»,- 125 hogsheads a year! What a wonder that - the kidneys can last any length of time under this prodigious strain, treated aud neglected as they arc! We slice this delicate orgnn open lengthwise with our knife, and will roughly describe its interior. We find it to ho of a redish brown colon soft and easily torn: tilled with hundreds of little tubes, short and thread-like, starting from the arteries, ending in a little tuft about midway from the outside opening into a cavi ty of considerable size, which is called the pelvis or, roughly speaking, a sac. which is for the purpose of holding the water to further undergo purification before it passes down from hero into the ureters, and so on to the outside of the body. The-e little tubes arc the filters which do their work automati cally, and right here is where the disease of tlie kidneys first begins. Doing the vast amount of work which they are obliged to, from tho slightest irregularity in our habits, from cold, from high living, from stimulants or a thousand and one other causes which occur every day, they lieconto somewhat weakened in tlicir nerve force, What is the result? Congestion or stoppage of the current of blood in tho small Mood ves sels surrounding them, which become blocked; these delicate membranes aro irritated: infla- mation is set up, then pus is formed.which col lects in the pelvis or sac: the tubes are at first partially, and soon are totally, unable to do their work. The pelvic sac goes on distend ing with this corruption, pressing upon tho Mood vessels. AH this time, remember, tho ' Mooil, which is entering the kidneys to be filtered, is passing through this terrible dis gusting pus, f r it cannot take any other route. Slop and think of it for a moment. D i you realize the .parlance, nav the vit ri necessity of having ti e kidneys in order ? Can you ex pect when they are diseased or obstructed, no matter how little, that you can have pure Mood and escape disease? It would be just as reasonable to c:- ! cd, if a pc-;t-house wore sat Jcross Brr . ’.v.arr ni d cenntte-c; tV.ru muds wero compelled to go through it. : pestilential doors, an escape from contagion and diar.i-v, :.s for one to expect the !>! ..>! to escape p flutLeu when constantly running through a di a:i,ed kidney. Now, what is the result? Why, that the Moou takes up and deposits this poison as it sweeps along into every organ, into every inch of muscle, tissue, tiesii and bone, from your head to your foot. Aud whenever, from her editary influence or otherwise, some part of tlie body is weaker than another, countless train or disease is cstatflislted, such ax con sumption. in weak lungs, dyspepsia, wbvro there is a delicate stomach; nerreusuess, in sanity, paralysis or heart disease in those who have weak nerves. The heart mustso-m feel tha effects of the poison, as it requires pure blood to keep it iu right a< tion. It Increases its stroke in number and force to compensate for the natural stimu lus wanting, iu its endeavor to crowd the im pure blood through tills obstruc tion, cruising pain,palpitation, ornn out-of-breath feeling. Unnatural as this forced labor is, tho heart must soon falter, becoming weaker and weak er until one day it suddenly stops, aud death from apparent “heart disease” is the verdict! But tlie medical profession, learned and dignified, call these diseases by high sounding names, treat them alone, and patients die, for the aitcrics aro carrying slow death to tho affected parts, constantly adding fuel brought from these suppurating, pus-laden kidneys which here in our wash-bowl are very putre faction itself, and which should havo been cured first. But this is uot all the kidneys liavo to do; for you must remember that each adult takes about seven pounds of nourishment every twenty-four hours to supply the waste of tho body which is constantly going on, a waste equal to the quantity taken. This, too, tho kidneys have to separate from tho blood with all other decomposing matter. But you say, “my kidneys are all right. I have no pain iu the hack.” Mistaken man! People die of kidney disease of so bad a char acter that the organs are rotten, and yet they have never thcro had a pain nor an ache! IVliy? Because Iflic disease begins, as wa have shown, iu the interior of the kidney, where thcro are few nerves of fooling to con vey the sensation of pain. Wily ■ this is so wo may never know. When you consider their great work, tha delicacy of their structure, the ease with which they are deranged, can you wonder at the ill- health of our men and women? Health and long life cannot lie expected when so vital an organ is impaired. No wonder some writers say wo are degenerating. Don’t you see the great, the extreme importance of keeping this machinery iu working order? Could the finest engine do even a fractional part of this work, without attention from tho engineer? Don’t you sec liow dangerous this hidden disease is? It is lurking about us constantly, without giv ing any indication of its presence. The most skillful physicians cannot detect it at times, for the kidneys themselves cannot be examined by any means which we have at our command. Even an analysis of the water, chemically and microscopically, reveals noth ing definite iu many cases, even when the kid neys are fairly broken down. Then look out for them, as disease, no matter where situated, to !>3 Jier cent, as shown by after death examination, lias its origin in tho breaking down of these secreting tubes iu tho interior of the kidney. As you value health, as yon desire long life, free from sickness and suffering, give those organs some attention. Keep them in good, condition, and thus prevent (as is easily done) all disease. Warner’s Safe Cure, ns it becomes year after year belter known for its wondcrtol cures and its power over tho kidneys, has douo and U doing more to increase the average duration of life than all the physicians and medicines known. Warner’s Safe < hire is a truerspeeifle, mild lmt certain, harmlcxa hut energetic, aal agreeable to tlie taste. Take it wheat sick, as a cure, and never let a mouth go by if you uo»,i it. without taking a Tew bottles as a preventive, that the kidney* may he kept v.t proper order, the blood pure* that licaith a -ul ’. 011 g life mav he your blearing It. H WARNER & OO. t’lTZ John Pouter's friends count on ais 1 majority in the senate for the bill to restore him to the army roster.